The father of the 16-year-old California girl who was brutally gang-raped by as many as 20 men told a jury Tuesday about the horrifying moment he realized his child had been assaulted.

He recounted how he received a vulgar call from his daughter's cell phone from one of her attackers who boasted how good she was at sex. The dad raced to the school and was soon approached by a police officer who called him by his name.

'When he addressed me (by my name), I started to buckle because I had not given my name," the father said.

In this photo from Monday, June 3, 2013, from right, Elvis Torrentes, John Crane Jr., and Jose Montano, suspects in a Richmond High School gang rape attack, walk to a preliminary hearing in Martinez, Calif

As the victim passed by on a gurney, the father saw her horribly beaten face and the vomit that was in her hair, theMercury Newssaid.

'I told her that we loved her very much and to hold on,' he said. 'I could see she was not conscious enough to respond back.'

The father was the first witness in the trial of Jose Montano, 22, and Marcelles Peter, 20, who each face life in prison if convicted.

'I'm envisioning it, and it was a horror,' the dad said.

Prosecutors also said how two condoms, a can of energy drink and a Four Loko were found at the scene.

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On Monday, Contra Costa County Deputy District Attorney John Cope delivered a graphic opening statement yesterday in which he described how police found the girl propped up by a
metal beam under a picnic table half-naked and bloodied.

She was
'incoherent and barely conscious' and covered in alcohol, urine and
dirt. Cope said Peter took part in the more than two-hour assault on the girl after she was plied with alcohol.

She had a blood alcohol level of .35 and has no memory of the attack.

Accused: Marcelles Peter, 20, left, and Jose Montano, 22, right, are standing trial in Richmond for their part in the shocking gang rape of a 16-year-old girl at her homecoming dance in 2009

Jailed: Ari Morales, left, and Manuel Ortega, right and agreed to plea deals and are serving 32 and 27 years respectively

Participants: John Crane Jr, 43, left, turned himself into police after the incident and Elvis Torrentes, right, faces charges including aiding the act of rape that could land him in prison for 26 years

Opening statements are scheduled today for another defendant in the case, Jose Montano, 22, from Richmond. Both men are being tried in front of dual juries.

Peter is charged with three criminal
counts of forcible rape, rape by foreign object and forced oral
copulation. Each count alleges that he acted in concert with others and
inflicted great bodily injuries on the victim.

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Cope described the series of events that unraveled on October 24, 2009. The victim, feeling bored and hot, left the school dance and went outside to phone her father when she encountered a male classmate who asked her if she wanted to come and 'party' with them.